The Dragons are coming to Carlow!! in the form of Norah Casey & Gavin Duffy as part of an exciting new programme called “The Business Toolbox” hosted by Carlow County Enterprise Board & Carlow Chamber of Commerce. The Dragons will be joined by Apprentice Finalist, Joanne Sweeney Burke from Media Box and a host of speakers with local, national and international experience for this seminar experience. The first seminar is to be held in the Seven Oaks Hotel , Athy Road on Thursday 19th April 2012 and run from 7.30am-11.00am.

The Business Toolbox aims to inspire, inform and enact people to develop their businesses during 2012. The seminar series gives owner managers and people considering becoming owner managers the chance to hear from the experts in areas such as marketing, PR and business development as well as hear insights from other business journeys’. Entrepreneur, businessman, best-selling author, and socio-economic commentator Pearce Flannery will head up one of the workshops looking at Grabbing the Oyster.

“One factor when putting the tools in place is that we were very aware of the time commitments of owner managers and the business toolbox runs from 7.30am until 11.00am ensuring that owner managers get the most from their day while also engaging in important management and business development activities” said Kieran Comerford, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Carlow County Enterprise Board

Chamber CEO, Olive Condron, said “The Chamber is delighted to be able to offer this workshop series in partnership with the Enterprise Board, now as ever is an important time for businesses to be examining their sustainability and development plans”. For further information on the Business Toolbox contact Olive in Carlow Chamber on 059 9132337 or Tina Kehoe from Carlow CEB on 059 9130880.